ZX-News #44 06 декабря 1998

Интервью

Interview - Opening the Spectrum: Dmitry Lomov / LD, Vitaly Vidmirov / Dark, Arzoumanian, Felix / Felix, Andrei Litvinov / LAV, Ivan Makarchenko / Ivan Mak.

                Interviews



  Have you ever thought about the history of the emergence
Speccy at known spektrumistah? No? -
But we did it for you. ;-) And in the
Indeed, because quite interesting to see the events through 
which people lived rebirth as a creative personality and became 
famous, discovering New World - the world of the Spectrum!



  So, we hope you enjoy this
material - the more so because during discussions popoputno 
raised various interesting details and even revealed some

sensation! =)


  The article turned out great and will therefore be published 
in several editions ZXNews.



        -= Opening Spectrum =

              Part One.

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   Dmitry Lomov / LD (X-TRADE):

ZXN: When and how did your Speccy?

LD: Heh-heh. :) In 1990, spending about
200 rubles to the details gathered himself first
Spectrum - Zonovskaya fee, Leningrad. Launched - the good, the 
knowledge already. The keyboard at first was from the wires 
stretched over each other. On the first night after assembly, I 
wrote a news ticker (on assembler and compiled by hand - the 
tape was not), but she jerked, and then, a study, I first 
became acquainted with the concepts of "frame" and 
"synchronization". A further matter we go ... 


  To 93-year sitting on the bare 48th with
cassettes, to 94 th the same, but with the disc.
Then soldered Scorpio.

ZXN: It is a cautionary tale of inventor XTR-modem. :) And what 
are you doing now on the Spectrum and what creative Plans for 
the future? 

LD: Plans for the sea - no time! :) This is
standard excuse for those who are more
18 years ... On the Spectrum for me gold
sometimes there was a time when I was about 16-17
- Then I sat for days after the car, and made quite a lot, 
though "it" all the vague, something like the sketches ... 
Thus, a lot of "things of domestic consumption." But

in terms of programming fun filled his hand.


  When people get older, it is necessary to provide for 
themselves, to go to work, etc. and there are two options - 
throw the Spectrum or to devote his time in fits and starts, 
with the remaining interest in the platform. For me fairly 
recently. 


  And in general, time is valued very differently when I do 
things predstavlyayuschschie interest only to me. I once was

modeminga interesting idea - I have created and XTR
wrote the software, is now the subject lost
interest to me, and XTR do not develop
although it is produced and sold. I think that in this scenario 
it is sufficient ... Modeming for me to become a communication 
and technical interest in him disappeared.



  More than a year ago, I (plus DARK'om)
was written STORM - turbo-assembler. This
summer I spent a whole month, every day, worked
on version 2.0, which was conceived as a
"If ye all in a super-duper", and much has already been
done, but now interest cooled down, and the case
rose ... But there was a man (STS), which took up so now all 
the lies him, and when he will bring to mind the editor, I

write a compiler. In short, the process still goes ...


  And at this stage, I developed
complex device, about the essence of which I would prefer to 
remain silent - but it will be daunting, and again a 
super-duper. " If I will bring it to mind, many of the problems 
on the Spectrum just fall off (a lot of rail problems and a bit 
of programming). When this point comes, I will lay anonsiki ... 
Only Here too, the big question: Can spektrumisty pay good 
money for good the same devices? Chips on which all planned to 
make (ALTERA), rather expensive, and most importantly, measured 
in the bucks. It was originally planned to make a device to

cheap "Loose" logic, but when the number of
chips exceeded a hundred, from this
pri6shlos refuse.


  While the theme of this devaysa I'm interested:)
and the work continues. Pisyuka no, do not have to work at 
home, briefly, some problems ... What's next - do not know ... 

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   Vitaly Vidmirov / Dark (X-TRADE):

ZXN: When and how did your Speccy?

Dark: I remember. :) Once in a cold winter season of 1993, or 
something something like that when I was 16 years old, was

purchased Spectrum 48. In a good metal case of irregular shape, 
it was first used as a lotion

TV to launch toys and, later, to write all sorts of different
curves BASIC'e programs. In those early
times I have been a place of pilgrimage blizzhivuschih friends 
that were perceptible brake my self-improvement of programming.



  But time passed and I, somehow, but began
move to ASSEMBLER. And to the 94-th year
when my Speck (not without help so Nemo) overgrown, first 128 
bytes, and then diskozhuem, I wrote my first program assembler, 
this crown of technology - GENS4B. ;)



  Remember the first demo, it was scroller
plus multicolor on IM2 and music. Although
No - just before this time, I drew in ArtStudio Animation 
helicopter "ah-64 (Apache) - dumb thing was. :) Pictures

rushed to the screen and changed the noise in the AY,
imitating the sound of a rotating screw ...


  My passion for light aircraft impact and
the second demo. That was something! I neskovako times 
downloaded Fighter Bomber and using the magic button overthrown 
on disk animation impromptu "airshow. This

animation (20 frames) subsequently unpacked in realtime. 
Naturally, such lamerstvo saw 1-2 people, including me. ;)



  Well, all the time went by, I found myself in
X-Trade, the house has found a warm place
five hundredth Amiga ... Together with LD, we wrote
DeMouy on the Enlight-96, which, as it may
Strangely enough, people liked and brought us
the first place. No prizes, to our regret, we did not get, uh 
huh, okay. 


  That's how we live today, but I
completely mired in a sea of ​​unrealized ideas
all of which come and go, and there is no end to them and
Region ... but to do something lazy!

P. S. By the way, Have you ever wondered what
think of our descendants? What made
people in times of Pentium'ov and 1.1 GHz
PowerPC, during whose motto was
"The more the better," messing with the little machine in 1982? 
.. 

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  Arzoumanian, Felix / Felix (Softland):

ZXN: When and how did your Speccy?

Felix: I was then 15 years, I went to
circle with the CPC and there we have collected the first
Spectrum-48 with the possibility of entering programs
with a tape recorder. There I collected his first
Speccy. Then he took three years and I was
closely with 48 KB and I have decided what it would not
was to collect anything and the 128-kilobyte
with the drive. After working a little fitter in some left the 
company, I had saved enough money to buy a card and details to 
the Pentagon 128. To drive under the name "Five" I'm bummed 
money from the ancestors, but rattled it drive like a bucket of 
nails. After some time his poor Pentagon I decided to change to 
the then popular popularly Scorpio. Helped me in that glory

Dangerous (X-TRADE) - a future date maker
General Sound and XTR-modem [prim.redaktsii:
XTR-modem made no Dangerous, and LD], In general, Slava then 
traded the Pentagon, and he helped me to shove my Pent. Having 
stood in line for half an hour zonovskomu tray, I finally 
received a long-awaited payment of Scorpio. This Scorpion is 
still in operation. 

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  Andrei Litvinov / LAV (Softland):

ZXN: When and how did your Speccy?

LAV: Spectrum I had in the late 92go/nachale 93rd year (exact 
date not remember). Ordinary 48-kilobyte, cassette, but with 
AY, bought some teleshopping. At the same time and began my 
attempt to write music in Wham'e. A year later appeared 
diskovodnaya model Contact 128 - with diskovertom. Having so 
much power, I densely populated of the ASM 1.11 and 
SoundTracker. A year later, I upgrade PC in Contact PS 128 - a 
slot machine system two flopovertami. In mid-1996

appeared PiSishka - 486 DX4-100. And in early 1997 and my 
contact was dead,: (and before 1998go, I was satisfied with 
emulators. Then I bought a Pentagon-128. But now he's lying by 
the Glory Dangerous'a (there is something broken), and again 
I'm sitting on the emulator. It is worth noting that the HRC 
has emulators, almost 100% compatible with the present Speccy. 
Since I am even now writing Speccy music, I like only one 
emulsion - zxemul by Lion17, 100% emulates AY. 

ZXN: And do not tell readers whether ZXNews
about some interesting details of
creative activity?

LAV: I want to tell an interesting thing regarding the process 
of creation of Winnie the Pooh I in 1995 to 1996 he. In many 
computer magazines, which describes Winnie, was present phrase: 
"... The game has a perfectly thought-out script ...". So. The 
script is not thought over almost nothing. "From lantern" 
crowded base screens - so that was prettier, and then, under 
the influence of beer:) ready for the screens folded some 
simple logical puzzles. And the story of Piglet's hit the world 
of people turned out spontaneously - I just drew too

many "human" sprites.


  And now look at Winnie the Pooh II and himself
rejoice: Felix still made odnofreymovy engine. Winnie runs 
cool! And schedule was much better. True, Felix lazy and still 
can not find the time fixed a one nasty bug in the engine, 
thereby delaying release of the game. But I assure - The game 
comes out. On the timing can not say anything. 

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   Ivan Makarchenko / Ivan Mak (Peters):

ZXN: When and how did your Speccy?

Ivan Mak: Oh! .. This was still the same story! :)


  Began my fascination with computers
times when the magazine "Radio" published articles on computer 
Micro-80, or rather a little later, because At that moment I 
did not realize what a schematic monster with a bunch of very 
obscure items. When I learned, I wanted collect, and when he 
wanted to build - there was a huge bummer, because I could not 
find common K155LA3. 


  It has not been enough time since then. As I
was delighted when in search of a trash
at the dump, I stumbled on the board where there were few 
digital chips! It was almost like a miracle! I vypayal these 
expensive chips and first brought to the flip-flop logic chip. 
At that moment, my passion has shifted somewhat away from the 
computer because he was still at an unattainable height. I 
invented instrument, tinkered with radios and old tape 
recorders. 


  Came the 1983rd year. I went to university, wanting to study 
electronics, but My dreams were once again turned to dust. On

Physics Department was not a single
specialization, which would have been an ever close to my goal. 
The very purpose of had not yet been clearly formulated, and so 
I walked along the narrow path of knowledge - Leading, as it 
seemed to me wherever I wanted. All this time I continued to 
regularly receive logs "Radio". (Who has not forgotten those

times, and certainly remember what a "limited subscription. But 
to me it does not spread, because I lived in the village and 
there I was not hard to get subscribe to this magazine.)



  My interest in computers for a long time asleep
and woke up only to the first articles about Radio-86RK. The 
first impulse was to run to the store for chips, which stood in 
computer, but he was brutally killed by reality. Single chip 
configuration of a computer I could not find. I looked at the 
article comes out every month, ran to the shops in the hope 
that something to find, but it was on the absolute zero and

not moving.


  Shel 1988-th. I, as usual, was standing near
store shelves, "Electronics" at Gagarin-12 and turned over 
large sheets of Plexiglas with lists of chips, but they

There was no mention of a series of KR580.
Then behind me a man came up and quietly
asked Do I need a chip. My attention shifted to him. In the 
subconscious, I knew it was a rogue and such people have no 
time to I was approached. I'm with them, just not talking, but 
at that moment my despair reached until the end.


   - Yes - I said.

   - Let's leave aside, and talk - he said.

  We moved away. I little thought, he decided to ask him 
clearest challenge. On the question of what chip do I need - I 
said: 

   - KR580VM80.

   - There are those - he replied.

  I do not know what to do with himself. Whether to run,
whether to scream with joy, but I restrained myself and
asked price.

   - 10 rubles - he called. I found this sort of trick. It 
seemed quite incredible that such a processor could cost so 
little. I was ready to pay and all 40 at the time.



  On the day I bought it. It took some
time, and I bought him a set of K565RU3
five rubles apiece, then KR580VG75 for
25 rubles ... This relationship could not
impose change on my outlook. I
remembered the words of people who spoke about
that the "flea market" in Avtovo can buy
any chip. Previously, I simply do not
believed, but now ...


  When I realized this - on the first Saturday
went there and was dumbfounded by the abundance
and those prices, what they offer.


  Here we should remember this simple
thing. Sometime in the electronics sold
Products K155LA3 per 1 USD. 40 kop. For
those who do not quite understand what the
money, translating them into current prices - is
about 30 "new" rubles. In Avtovo for
the same price you could buy and counters
and multiplexers and much more.


  Actually, it was all background. In
1989, I still managed to collect
Z80 computer from parts purchased
in Avtovo. It was not the Spectrum, not Radio-86RK, not 
Micro-80 ... It was a monster I was able to teach the issue on 
the screen TV shaped as letters and dots. Collecting it, I

and heard about the computer ZX-Spectrum. At first I was, as 
usual, missed a hearing by ears, but then saw this car in

one of his friend in the university
hostel and it was quite natural that
I have all switched to him.


  I had almost all the details, was the processor and memory. 
In the market I bought a scheme Spectrum, and then grabbed 
without looking at cost Zonovskogo option the 48-th ... Someone 
from Friends laughed at me in the train,

showing that for a fee, I took it. It was zalip on zalipe, heap 
neprotravov ... But I did not care. I've had enough

experience in the manufacture of circuit boards using the tool
and when he got home, I began the restoration of
board. I killed for cutting of zalipov about
three hours, and then decided to collect the computer is not 
so, as is done normally. I solder in circuit in series and 
tested their work. First generator on LN1, then

Trigger on TM2, and then counters ... I'm busy with this board 
for a week. Search zalipov and cliffs can be derived from a

anyone, but my impulse was such that I
takes it for good.


  And then came that glorious hour! On the screen
TV's have a wonderful strip and followed them jumped treasured 
inscription: 


     (C) 1982 Sinclair Research Ltd.


  He still was not the keyboard. He did not
was the entrance to boot from the tape. They
simply were not wired, but this event
changed my life. Guilty of
I was expelled from the university to sixth year before the 
defense had been completely no problems in the family and do 
not need to earn money. 

 The culprit was the love of ZX-Spectrum! :-)


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